Corey Mesler has published several books of fiction and poetry, most recently, Madstones (BlazeVOX, 2018). His work has been published in Poetry, New Stories from the South, among other journals and anthologies, and on Garrison Keillor's Writer’s Almanac. He wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. He runs Burke’s Book Store with his wife, in Memphis.